Pathogenic bacteria infection is a major public health problem due to the high morbidity and
mortality rates, as well as the increased expenditure on patient management. Although there …

Catechols represent an important and versatile building block for the design of mussel-
inspired synthetic adhesives and coatings. Indeed, their ability to establish large panoply of …

This review reports the recent advances in the most important and straightforward synthetic
protocols for incorporating catechols into (bio) polymers, and discusses the emerging …

Current point-of-care lateral flow immunoassays, such as the home pregnancy test, rely on
proteins as detection units (eg antibodies) to sense for analytes. Glycans play a fundamental …

Polycatechols are a class of polymers bearing multiple catechol moieties. These polymers
possess unique physiochemical properties such as antioxidant, bioadhesive, metal …

Recently, quorum sensing (QS) inhibitors (QSIs) have been combined with antibiotics to
enhance antibiofilm efficacy in vitro and in vivo. However, targeting QS signals alone is not …

How does man dare to accept nature's challenges? A myriad of natural products with
stunning structures and impressive properties fashion the research platforms of scientists …

Composite materials combining nitrogen-doped carbon (NC) with active species represent a
paramount breakthrough as alternative catalysts to Pt for the oxygen reduction reaction …

Bacteria respond to different small molecules that are produced by other neighboring
bacteria. These molecules, called autoinducers, are classified as intraspecies (ie …

Herein, we report a platform to integrate customizable quantities of catechol units into
polymers by reacting caffeic acid carbonic anhydride with polymers having pendant amine …